Most recently published pieces
- Strip searches, trauma, isolation: Trans men describe life behind bars
NBC News • December 2021 - Prisoners, Doctors, and the Battle Over Trans Medical Care: Those who are incarcerated are suing for their right to gender confirmation surgery—if deemed necessary. Meet the psychiatrist who almost always says it’s not
Wired • July 2021 - Meet The “Fringe Extremists” Pushing Flawed Science To Target Trans Kids
Buzzfeed News • April 2021
Selected features stories
- Prisoners, Doctors, and the Battle Over Trans Medical Care: Those who are incarcerated are suing for their right to gender confirmation surgery—if deemed necessary. Meet the psychiatrist who almost always says it’s not
Wired • July 2021 - Force-Feeding Is Cruel, Painful, and Degrading—and American Prisons Won’t Stop
The Nation (print) • June 2019 - Prisoners Endure A Nightmare ‘Gulag’ In Lower Manhattan, Hidden In Plain Sight
Gothamist • June 2018
Selected reporting
- For Abused Women, a Pandemic Lockdown Holds Dangers of Its Own
The New York Times (print) • March 2020 - ‘This is where my everything is’: US citizen suddenly faces deportation
The Guardian • November 2019 - Young South Asian Women in Queens Take on Islamophobia and the Patriarchy
The Village Voice (print) • August 2017
Selected essays, commentary, reviews & interviews
- One conspiracy theory about Jeffrey Epstein’s death is real, and it’s been right under our noses all along
The Independent (UK) • August 2019 - “An Ordinary Muslim” and the Clichés of Culture Clash on Stage
The Intercept • March 2018 - Trust in Instinct: Sarah Schulman embeds shame within the emotional landscape of Conflict Is Not Abuse
The New Inquiry • May 2017
Book chapters
- We Own the Future: Democratic Socialism—American Style edited by Kate Aronoff, Peter Dreier and Michael Kazin. My chapter: “Who Gets to Be Safe? Prisons, Police, and Terror.”
The New Press • January 2020
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Aviva Stahl 